Mw. dr. C. A. P. (Cátia) Antunes

Position:
  • Lecturer


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2735
E-Mail: c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.06b
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​history/​organisation/​staff-history/​antunes.html


          Cátia Antunes (1976) obtained her degree in History from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, after being awarded two Erasmus Scholarships, one for the Centre of Urban History, University of Leicester (UK), and the other to the History Department, Leiden University (The Netherlands). In September 1999 she became junior researcher at the History Department of Leiden University by working on her dissertation Globalisation in the Early Modern Period: the economic relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705, under the supervision of Prof. Richard. T Griffiths and Prof. Femme. S. Gaastra, approved in November 2004.

            Since 2003 she has been Lecturer at the Economic and Social History section, History Department, Leiden University. In 2004 and 2005 she did post-doc research for the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia in Portugal. She spent the academic year of 2007-2008 at the History Department of Yale University, on a Fulbright Research grant as a guest of Ezra Stiles College, under Prof. Stuart B. Schwartz. She is currently doing research into cross-cultural business networks in the Atlantic world during the Early Modern period.

Research interests

  • Urban History 1500-2000
  • Port History 1500-2000
  • Bilateral, multilateral and cross cultural socio-economic networks
  • Business History (1500-1914)
  • History of Iberia and the Iberian expansion overseas in comparative perspective
  • Globalisation in History and the Rise of the West

Grants

  • 2007-2008: Fulbright Research Fellow at the History Department, Yale University (USA) for the project: Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 1580-1776.
  • 2005-2006: post-doctoral grant by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ( Portugal) for the project: Amsterdam and the Portuguese ports 1580-1640: globalization in comparative perspective

Major Publications

C.A.P. Antunes, Lisboa e Amesterdao 1640-1705. Um caso de globalizacao na Historia Moderna (2009, Coleccao Cidade de Lisboa).


C.A.P. Antunes, Globalisation in the Early Modern period: the economic relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705 (2004).


Last Modified: 13-04-2010